Acts of antisemitism and anti-Israel rhetoric are especially painful when they occur in places where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. Lodz, Poland, is such a place. Before the Holocaust, Lodz was home to the world’s third-largest Jewish community and later became the site of the second-largest ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe. Of a prewar Jewish population of over 230,000, only about 7,000 survived. The city itself remains almost intact, with much of its Jewish heritage still visible—Jews were instrumental in building and owning Lodz’s textile industrial........

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